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"The King of the Ring," who has competed in GLORY and World Series of Fighting (WSOF), will now add boxing to his resume when he competes in Germany on an ECB fight card. Spong will compete at heavyweight and his opponent has not yet been named.

GLORY 21 will take place at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California. The card will be headlined by a middleweight title fight between current champion Artem "The Lion" Levin and the winner of the GLORY 20 middleweight contender tournament, which takes place on April 3, 2015.

Former disgruntled professional wrestler Phil Brooks, who operates under the moniker "CM Punk," recently told podcast listeners that WWE's senior ringside physician, Christopher M. Amann, was a "worthless piece of shit" whose incompetence as a doctor led to a full-blown staph infection.

Need some more high quality stand-up action? Then tune in Friday night for Lion Fight 20, featuring full rules Muay Thai. Bloody Elbow has full coverage right here, including a preview and live discussion.

A big title fight was added to the GLORY 20 DUBAI card today as the organization confirmed that Robin van Roosmalen will defend the belt against Andy ‘The Machine' Ristie in the headline slot. The bout replaces the previously announced World Featherweight Championship fight between Gabriel Varga and Mosab Amrani, with that fight now moving to headline slot of the GLORY Superfight Series 20 portion of the card.

Superkombat is one of the biggest kickboxing organizations in the world and has yielded Glory standouts like Bejamin Adegbuyi and Andrei Stoica. To ensure the development of high-level talent for years to come, the Romania-based promotion has now invented a new and somehow groundbreaking concept to support up-and-coming fighters: the Superkombat Academy.